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00:00one on five with a bouncy trait still back for your pop and r&b it's your boy showtime the
00:03czar
00:03have some special guests in here with me today but i'm gonna introduce the person making this
00:08all run jayah honey what up though hey how y'all doing today welcome to the show how are you
00:14i'm
00:14doing pretty good happy to be here nice nice thank you and you got some guests would you introduce
00:18your guests for me yes marie is my uh runway model coach and i have aaron here i'm business
00:24partner and production company marie aaron how y'all doing i'm doing good how y'all doing today
00:31my bad i can't see that i want to make sure yo what up though what's going on detroit all
00:35right so
00:36let's uh let's start with you okay give people a little background about your business and how you
00:43guys started and um tell people the name of it first because i see it but i want to i
00:47want you to
00:47introduce it so my business is called strut honey it's a fashion show company and we started based
00:53off of making sure we give lgbt community and other diverse models an opportunity to be in the
00:59forefront to go on the runway what got you in a fashion and wanted to create a uh company such
01:06as this so my cousin she was modeling and i was very inspired by like seeing what she was doing
01:12i was
01:13like okay well i kind of want to try it out so i was like let me see how this
01:16will go and at first it
01:17was like a lot of roadblocks but we finally got to something ended up joining indie fashion i did
01:24my casting call and i got casted for the riverfront fest nice saucy santana nice and that was my first
01:30time getting on the runway at the heart blazer and it was a dream come true i had the time
01:35of my life
01:35what was that like getting on the runway for the first time man describe that feeling for people who
01:39have not done that it was it was scary heart pounding so we got on the stage i'm like okay
01:44well now
01:44we're here there's thousands of people over here and i'm like okay well let's do it so what okay so
01:50what's the process i guess or like the preparation going into that because i see you see a lot of
01:55people walk runways and stuff like that and it's just like it just look like y'all just take a
01:59deep
01:59breath walk and walk back is that what it is or no okay well all right so help us understand
02:05i ain't
02:05never did it but i see a lot of people out there doing it and it look like it's easy
02:08but the way you
02:09saying it ain't easy no um so basically making sure you have your model bag prepared you have to
02:14have like um undergarments make sure that you have your heels everything has to be in place and then
02:21you have to come go to your rehearsals we have countless rehearsals and really yes how many rehearsals
02:27y'all got like three sometimes maybe like five just the one yeah wow i didn't know that yeah we
02:33can't just get on the runway we rehearse yeah a lot i guess like an hour two hours what's the
02:39time
02:39three hours god dang yeah that's deep so it's it's a full process of getting to the runway
02:47and when we get there it's time to do your fittings so we got to make sure we get through
02:50our fittings
02:51go to our designers um buildings or we go to the rehearsal and we get fitted there
02:56and we get to see all the beautiful garments that we get to wear and sometimes we don't get to
03:00see
03:00them until the day of so that's another thing um it it's a it's a process and then we get
03:05on the
03:05stage it's an adrenaline so when you finish that show you want to do the next show got you got
03:11you
03:11so how the walk there's like a 30 second walk right is depending on how long the runway is got
03:16you
03:16got you got you okay um house of honey yes that's the name fashion show yes okay obviously strut
03:24honey that's where you got the name house of honey but what why did you decide to name it house
03:26of
03:27honey so the house of honey is a ballroom inspired lgbt show um inspired by the ballroom scene got you
03:35so
03:35i am part of house of revlon shout out to jack so this is a big opportunity for us to
03:41showcase what
03:42we do on a fashion level and a vogue level and really just giving back to the community during pride
03:48month nice nice aaron yes sir how are you king i'm doing great man that's what's up um talk about
03:55your involvement in all of this and what do you help do oh my gosh my involvement dealing with jayah
04:01is amazing listen i've been working with him for the last three years up under his company and
04:07protecting his image and he has a beautiful image like you said he representing the lgbt plus community
04:14and i'm a part of that community as well and he's a young guy that's doing great things um for
04:20his
04:20brand of course we got black and gold we themed out with the full nine and it's it's very very
04:27stylish
04:27my part in it is just protecting his image making sure everybody looks good from pictures to videos
04:34to the graphics whatever it is that he need i'm able to provide for him you said you met him
04:38three
04:39years ago how did y'all link up with somebody did did you know him through somebody else or you
04:42just
04:43kind of ran into him y'all had a conversation how'd that go actually how it went is that he
04:46contacted
04:47me in need of help for his show he was like i need a videographer he told me a little
04:53bit of what's
04:54going on i got to the shoot it's a little chaotic but you organized it yeah buddy like hey it
05:01was that
05:01bad it was it was it was something but hey with organization everything can come together for sure
05:07got you so um i think that's my big role in this thing is to help organize the company and
05:13make
05:13sure everybody is set now you said you was doing some video were you doing that before you met him
05:18or it was like you was dabbling in it how'd that go okay yeah yeah so i've been doing videography
05:22work
05:22in photography for 10 years nice what got you into that oh man um i noticed that i had a
05:28camera in my
05:29hand when i was a kid in high school got you um yeah so that's where it actually started i
05:35really
05:36originally wanted to go for accounting and architectural work and then next thing you know
05:41it just turned into video camera work to camera work yeah i feel it that's what's up maria yes all
05:47right and you explain to people who you are my bad i'm only moving this so i can see y
05:50'all but um
05:51explain to people what you do now he said you're a coach yes okay what type of coach i'm a
05:56model coach
05:56for jay's brand um i started off as a model i still am a model um i was his brand
06:03ambassador at
06:04first basically just helping him get his brand out being the face of strut honey um right now as a
06:10model
06:11coach i'm helping all the other models get into their modeling career helping them with their walks
06:18helping them just build their confidence and things like that how many i guess people do you work
06:24at a time being a coach two three ten i say like like 60 yeah like definitely 50 plus because
06:36like
06:36all the models that come to the casting and then the models that get casted for the show oh so
06:43it's
06:43like america's next top model type situation where you got to handle that many personalities for real
06:48yeah yeah yeah how do you do that that's a lot of people um i honestly don't know because i'm
06:56not
06:56i'm 19. ah nah bro you got to deal with that many people yeah i knew you were young but
07:01i didn't
07:02picture 19 and that you're dealing with a lot of grown people and yeah different mindsets so explain
07:06i mean to cut you off but explain how that you know trying to deal with that many personalities at
07:10one time i say sometimes it can be challenging off of the fact that i am young and someone being
07:16like
07:17older than me they might think like they don't have to listen right or why would they listen to
07:22like a little kid basically but but you're not a kid but yeah but i still think i do good
07:28like i
07:29really don't be having confrontation with any of the models for real nice nice yeah i want to get back
07:34to you um you spoke a lot actually both of y'all did um about this being an lgbtq plus
07:41event and um just
07:42how important is that to you to first of all be black representing yes and then also be lgbtq
07:49representing what is what does that mean to you for me doing what we're doing here is a huge
07:56opportunity for the community because what i do notice in the fashion industry here in michigan
08:01maybe not in atlanta or houston but here they do not give us as many opportunities as we could get
08:09other states why you think that is um so when i had first started out when i wanted to model
08:14i was
08:15told that i could not model due to my nails and my makeup yeah i saw you have put that
08:20i don't
08:21understand that why would they say that i feel like fashion is a i wasn't even allowed into the casting
08:25rooms wow they said there's no point for you to audition because you already know what the answer
08:31will be because of your nails yes and my makeup so at that point when i found out indie fashion
08:38was
08:38hosting the show with saucy santana as the host this was my ticket through right got you got you
08:44as i went there i was like you know what let me go and i did it and i got
08:49into the show so i was able
08:50to network it was like over 100 models there it was so many people there it was the perfect show
08:56to get your foot through the door so i was able to network i met taylor lang i met so
09:02many people
09:02there and ricky all of them i met all of my amazing peers as i know today at this one
09:09show
09:11so that's how this all started and then i started doing my own show because this is what i want
09:15for
09:15my people when you when they told you about your nails and they said nah were you like maybe this
09:23ain't
09:23did you get discouraged at all did you feel like this might not be familiar definitely um i didn't
09:29want to do it until i saw that cast and i was like well maybe this ain't something i want
09:32to do but
09:32i do want to do it because right i want to model what changed your mind in that in that
09:38instance
09:38right there you was like uh maybe this is not it but then you're like you know what i see
09:41the cast
09:41let me actually go for it seeing somebody look like me got you how important is that to be seeing
09:46someone looking like you because a lot of people don't see someone doing what they're doing and that
09:51can be you know discouraging so talk about that real quick man it gave me hope so i went and
09:56i
09:56went in there i was very nervous so i was shaking got you i was like okay are we gonna
10:01do good we're
10:02gonna get in and i was like okay we're in this long line you should have seen the line the
10:06line was so
10:06long just to get in there and i got in there my first time first time going to any kind
10:13of casting
10:14like this and they was like you know what they called my number and at that point i was how'd
10:19you do
10:20i think i did fair for no okay well you'll be honest with yourself that's what's up
10:26i had no training so i did did pretty good to get in the show got you that's all you
10:31needed yeah
10:32fire uh aaron i want to ask you a similar question man yes sir what does it mean to act
10:39a be black and
10:40be representing lgbtq man to be black and to be represented in the lgbt plus community is
10:46everything um listen i think we go through so much especially as black men right and already
10:57being part of community and you know growing up from childhood to being an adult is a lot i don't
11:05think i have to elaborate too much on that right right i know what you're saying yeah um but it
11:10is
11:11really amazing to help my people and protect their image and give them a safe space because that's
11:17what king gay production is it's a safe space for everybody to be involved and everybody image is
11:23protected because king gay productions is where your image matter i want to ask y'all about just the fashion
11:28industry as a whole with something that's always changing fashion is changing damn near every day
11:34every year every month you know i'm saying how do y'all keep up keeping up i would say just
11:41finding
11:42things that work for you and your brand to like keep the people involved in wanting to be a part
11:47like we have the parade coming up so we have our models participate in parade and we go to like
11:52different festivals sort of pride festivals which is something different versus just throwing a you
11:57know traditional fashion show got you and then you know having some guests come out like our friend
12:03big sexy he will be out here next two weeks yep next two weeks so you know stuff like that
12:07just
12:08keeping stuff current with the social media times definitely you design clothes i used to okay it's a
12:16lot it's a lot to do a show and make clothes for the show at the same time okay i
12:21don't do that
12:22would you step back into it if you want if you if i had more time definitely okay okay uh
12:29i want to ask
12:30you coach um what's your thoughts on just like the ever-changing fashion world and you know i guess
12:36teaching people how to walk in these clothes you know what i'm saying like just thoughts on that like
12:41trends change every day every month every week um me personally i'm not really the type to follow
12:49trends i feel like if you want to stand out in the fashion industry you have to be the trans
12:55sitter you have to do your own thing so that brings more attention um let me see i don't know
13:04like
13:04okay so for example um with me being a model and like my outside world outside the fashion industry and
13:12like co-workers or people that i see in my everyday life they'll say like oh what did you have
13:18on or what
13:19was that like they don't really get the clothes that you wear in the fashion industry but i don't
13:25know i just feel like um even if it's good exposure or bad exposure either way you're getting exposure
13:32and somebody is going to see you and somebody is going to like what you have on so why not
13:37be the
13:37trendsetter instead of trying to follow other trends because they always gonna change yeah that's
13:42a fact what did your parents say when you decided you wanted to be a model coach and how do
13:46you learn
13:47how to be a model coach well my mom she supports me in my modeling career um it may not
13:55be exactly
13:56what she wanted for me but um i'm just also kind of just now starting getting into being a modeling
14:04coach so you're still learning and you're still growing yeah i'm just kind of learning as i'm going
14:08through go ahead so we have a plethora of model coaches it's three or it's four of them so we
14:17all
14:17work together to do got you so it's a collective thing um yes so she does have help like amazing
14:23help we have elise we have ayana we have it's elise ayana who's the other one missing one i think
14:31that's it ricky you got ricky so it's three to four people helping you with all this okay we can
14:38make the show happen let me ask you a lot of hands okay well that makes it better because that's
14:42like
14:42that's what i was saying about the 60 people that's a lot of just you know dealing with it so
14:47so much
14:47at one time i want to ask y'all about what's a misconception that people might have about either
14:53a the fashion industry you as a person just kind of tell me something that i feel like
15:00people automatically see you and you're like nah that's not right i'll say it's just take time to
15:06get to know somebody got you don't judge a book by its cover got you that person might got the
15:10same
15:11story you got what about you what's the misconception you feel like people out the gate just feel like
15:16it's wrong about i feel like people like when i do tell people that i am a model they do
15:21be surprised
15:22or like really or stuff like that because in the modeling industry fashion industry looking at all
15:28these big models they're i don't really look like them i have dreads my hair is bright red so i
15:35don't
15:35really fall into their perception on what a model is so i feel like that is a big a big
15:42misconception
15:43that people have about me nice social media plays a big role today in everything okay how do y'all
15:51manage you know social media um i guess with just egos and just like promoting your brand and
15:58promoting yourself and just you know talk to me about like how social media affects what you do on
16:02a day-to-day basis social media is a great tool that's how strut honey was able to honestly push
16:08through as well just got you yeah the numbers do pretty well yeah uh me and aaron we have a
16:14i feel like the numbers do great on there yes we also do promo shoots so for our fashion shows
16:20we actually just did a promo shoot last week yes and with the promo shoots it brings a lot of
16:27viewers
16:27to see what we have and it gives them a visual of what the show will look like and this
16:31really helps
16:32on social media because people can see what's going on so i think social media is a great tool to
16:37push
16:37out you know just the visual of what your show is nice nice the name strut honey where'd you come
16:43up
16:43with that from so we want to strut so you want to do a duck walk and i love beyonce
16:48oh i got you
16:49honey is just like nice you started it when we started it's like three years back okay and and at
16:58that time you were were you still designing clothing you know into the fashion or like were you still
17:03like trying to build something i was making denim clothing so i had a denim collection and then i was
17:10back and forth going to new york and i was working just working a regular job and then modeling on
17:16top
17:16of that got you when y'all got involved with strut honey what was your first impression
17:20um okay so i met jayah like almost three years ago um i was already doing shows um my original
17:29model coach her name is pia fiore she actually like got me into modeling i met jayah because he had
17:36came
17:36and did a fashion show with her before and he had he chose me to be like one of his
17:43little models
17:43for his little like house of honey walk set yeah so after that like we just stayed in contact and
17:53he
17:53wanted me to work with him and i do feel like it has progressed a lot like from the um
18:00rehearsal spots
18:02that we have now from the rehearsal spots we had then the venues the crowds like everything really
18:09is changing and it's getting better nice nice it's getting bigger and better and that's where my
18:14portion comes in that these pictures and the videos social media is a powerful tool yeah and like i said
18:22protecting that image is everything and jayah always come up with some cool ideas so he always got
18:29something under his sleeve with another idea he probably got another show in his head already
18:36um but yeah that social media play is a lot where we do a lot of projects to promote and
18:43get the views because the viewers is what really does it for us all right a couple more things i'm
18:48gonna let y'all go because i know y'all busy um kelly was telling me you got a connection
18:52with beyonce
18:53and some you met her i was featured on her website and on the be good um on the be
18:59good page on
19:00instagram oh talk to me about that what is that what was that like it was amazing now you're talking
19:06about viewers that's a lot of viewers and a lot of eyeballs a lot of people yeah video it was
19:11actually
19:12two videos and a picture did you get a chance to meet her it was just usually no i didn't
19:16get to meet
19:16her but i saw her very close she was just as close as you are to me right now that's
19:20yeah that was
19:21amazing and um what happened was the guy he was like can you do this he's like can you put
19:29your hand
19:29over your nose and i said okay and then when i put my hand on my nose he was like
19:33okay well
19:36and then there you go right on the page i was like is that me wow what did your people
19:40think when
19:41they saw did y'all see that listen what did y'all say when y'all beyonce page that's huge
19:46that was
19:47amazing see i already got a beyonce video out so when he got his moment it's like yeah we doing
19:54something so you had a beyonce moment too talk to me about that real quick so my beyonce moment was
19:59with the before i let go song we did a amazing video shoot at the hitsville um nice yeah you
20:07guys
20:07can go to my youtube king a production go check the video out it was with damn della tiffany and
20:14also um what's my other girl name uh neek chalet my girl neek she danced right next to beyonce all
20:22the
20:22time so it was really amazing to have those three amazing choreographers and dancers to be a part of
20:29that visual so yeah if y'all can't go check it out on youtube it's really amazing all right how's
20:34the
20:34honey when is it happening and do people how can people still get tickets all that good stuff so
20:39it's happening june 12th it's gonna be at the rsvp event space you can get your tickets on king
20:44a productions.com slash events it's gonna be at 6 p.m very grand event red carpet make sure you
20:50come
20:51glammed up to the gods looking good yes and we're gonna have amazing amazing red carpet we're gonna have
20:58tons of celebrities there nice listen we want you all to show up and show out for the city y
21:04'all we
21:04out here in clinton township metro detroit area it's gonna be very luxurious fire fire
21:10thoughts i every show is always bigger than the last so i know it's gonna be fantastic it's gonna
21:17bring out the crowd i'm ready for the red carpet i'm ready to see all the outfits that the designers
21:22have because it's a lot of new designers this show um a lot of like elegant dresses ball gown attire
21:30since it is like ballroom theme and stuff like that so yeah i can't wait for that i what's one
21:35thing y'all want people to take away from the show um what is it june 12th right yeah house
21:42of honey
21:42what is one thing you want somebody to take away from that show when they come what i want people
21:45to
21:46take away from the show is i want them to feel inspired i want them to leave feeling good about
21:50what they came to see also to support our local black fashion designers that are in the city of
21:55detroit area because they work really hard to get these garments done and you know they're just trying
22:01to get their brands out there so let's just push them because they work very hard nice detroit is where
22:09it's at with the fashion yes it's where it's at yeah yeah i hear people say atlanta is fashion in
22:16the
22:16hair capital but you know no i'm biased i love it i'm like we have a huge here yeah yeah
22:23oh my god
22:24it's like a show every every like two weeks yeah yeah it's the show all the time here so great
22:30fashion
22:31area to like see the different fashion shows nice jay aaron maria thank y'all for coming in i want
22:38y'all to shout y'all instagrams out where people can find y'all at and also house of honey
22:42how to get
22:43tickets and where it's gonna be at one more time for me so you can go on kingaproductions.com slash
22:48events and the event will be on june 12th on a friday at 6 p.m and my instagram is
22:55iamjahoney and my
22:57business instagram is strut honey and once again i'm aaron cross king a productions you can find me on
23:04instagram at king a underscore productions nice and my name is marie my instagram is marie m-a-r-i
23:12-e-e
23:13the model nice appreciate all y'all for coming in thank y'all man strut honey uh house of honey
23:19june 12th all right make sure i get y'all tickets to showtime the czarist 105 on the bounce peace
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